Hawk Roosting

• “I sit on top of the wood, my eyes closed”
• “It took the whole of creation to produce my foot”
• “Between my hooked head and hooked feet”
• “The allotment of death”
• “I kill where I please as it is all mine”
• “My manners are tearing off heads”
• The poem Hawk Roosting, written by Ted Huges, is a direct monologue of a hawk who has a very solipsistic personality. It also has implications of dictators and political leaders of the time, suggesting how they all act in similar ways to this arrogant hawk.
• The poem presents the Themes of : NATURE & NEGATIVE EMOTIONS